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| behavioral adaptation | an action that helps a living thing survive in its environment |
| decomposers | feed off of dead plant and animals (fungus) |
| life cycle | illustration of a living thing’s birth through death |
| ecosystem | all the populations and the nonliving components in an environment that interact with each other |
| population | all the organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time |
| community | populations of species that live together in the same place at the same time |
| habitat | a place where plants or animals naturally live and meet their needs for food, water, shelter and space |
| niche | the function that an organism performs in the food web of the community |
| food web | an illustration that shows the relationship of energy through all the organisms in a community |
| predators | living things that hunt for food |
| prey | living things that are hunted as food |
| scavengers | feed of the dead remains of animals |
| producers | living things that take in nonliving things from the environment |
| consumers | feed off of the producers |
| structural adaptation | a physical feature on an animal that helps it survive an environment |
